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DX AWARDS From the leek and celeriac bisque with almond lemon pesto to the chocolate brandy gâteau with orange chocolate glaze and gingersnap tuile, the Design Exchange Awards, presented by Canadian Business, was the place to dine as well as network. 3
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1 — Paul Uffelmann, associate at Deutsche Bank Securities; Gillian Batcher, owner and goldsmith at Pash Jewellery Design; and Philip Hastings and Valerie Gow, partners, Gow Hastings Architects. 2 — The clients, Rémi Bédard and Daniel Collard, owners of Loft Encadrex, the high-end Montreal frame shop; and the designers, Smith Vigeant Architects partners Stéphane Vigeant and Daniel Smith. 3 — Kasian’s Dean Matsumoto, principal; Heather Ploeg, designer; Lois Wellwood, principal; Janine Grossman, associate; Bill Chomik, principal; and Tina Zalac, marketing. 4 — Cathy Garrido, Andy Thomson, Trevor McIvor and Graham Smith, partners at design-build firm Altius and part-owners of Sustain Design Studio. 5 — Fleur-De-Lis Interior Design partners Peter Lunney and Eric McClelland. 6 — Inger Bartlett, president of the eponymous interior design firm, and her husband, Marshal Stearns, partner.
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AGO LAUNCH The official press launch of Frank Gehry’s grandly renovated Art Gallery of Ontario. 1 — Mathew Teitelbaum, AGO CEO; the famous Frank; Gilles Ouellet, president and CEO, Private Client Group, BMO Financial Group, and Deputy Chair, BMO Nesbitt Burns; and Charles Baillie, AGO president and former TD Bank CEO. 2 — Cindy Newton, sales rep with Coldwell Banker realty; art writer and former NOW arts editor Deirdre Hanna; and Peter Fallico, host of HGTV’s Home to Flip.
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